Deep into January. I was preparing dinner, feeling as grey as the sky outside — we were supposed to have snow the next day. Then, in between the equally dreary news on the radio, something interesting caught my ears.

I heard Robert Siegel on All Things Considered interviewing the director of a movie called “Oka!,”  about a group of Bayaka pygmies who live in the Central African Republic. Interesting enough.

Then he said the pygmies produce “stunning music – (with) their voices, and their use of virtually everything around them, trees, even the water in the stream, as musical instruments.”  I was hooked.

For background, the director explained that the Bayaka, a forest people, are among the most ancient people on earth, being related to the San bushmen and the original inhabitants of Africa, and they remain hunter-gatherers. The word “oka” means listen in their language, Aka. The children begin singing and dancing with the group when they are two years old.

The soundbites he played awakened the armchair traveler in me, who took a YouTube break while dinner simmered. It was enchanting. I plan to buy a copy of the CD of the soundtrack, “Listen, Oka” when it is released in February. (The movie, unfortunately, received mixed reviews.)

What exactly does a river played like a drum sound like? Here’s a quick example:

Here are some Bayaka Women Yodelers — many wearing hats made from large leaves:

And a more formal introduction to the Bayaka culture:

Here are some beautiful recordings of songs with still illustrations (ethereal duet sung by two girls):

The way we receive information is changing. Some friends have completely abandoned hardcover books for e-books; others have never read a book in electronic form, and yet others have collections of both. Our public libraries increasingly offer patrons a choice of formats.

With the rapid development of technology, I think this was bound to happen. Books have been around for millennia — in essentially the same form for six centuries — and as a painting teacher once told our class, “The only constant in design is change.”

The relationship of artists to written communication has also changed. In the past, the destruction of a book meant the destruction of the information it contained. But when anyone can carry a library in his or her luggage, designers and artists are beginning to view bound, printed pages as art supplies. Several artists are exploring ways to keep books from landfills and preserve their shelf life.

Jim Rosenau takes that challenge literally. The son and grandson of book publishers, Rosenau was raised in a house with 5,000 books.  He is now a carpenter, comedy writer and software developer living in California, but he is perhaps best known for creating furniture — including bookshelves — from discarded hardbacks and salvaged lumber.

Shelf made from a set of three dictionaries by Jim Rosenau.

“Who Done It?” Shelf made from three carefully selected abandoned books by Jim Rosenau.

Bookcase made from rescued books by Jim Rosenau.

While majoring in 3D Design in college, British artist Laura Cahill kept track of the number of objects discarded within a mile radius of her school. In response to her findings, she began a collection, “Readable Furniture,” made from recycled books.  “I am fascinated in reusing objects in a way that gives them a new life,” she said.

Vase made from old books by Laura Cahill. The spines are wrapped around test tubes so that the vases don't get damaged when they are filled with water.

Table and lamp from old books by Laura Cahill.

The Dutch firm Bomdesign offers several sculptural reading lamps made from reclaimed books, and creates boxes from other recycled materials to ship them to clients throughout the world. Lamp sizes vary, depending on the size of the original books.

Reading lamps made from old books by Bomdesign.

Furniture made by stacking books has been around for a long time — almost any dorm-dweller can do it without special training. In college I made bookshelves by stacking out-of-date textbooks between custom-cut boards.

Here are some other designs that take this technique to the next level.

Stacked Book Tables.

When the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands needed a new reference desk, the staff created one from old intact library books.

The reference desk in the Technical University of Delft library.

Closeup view of the library reference desk in Delft.

Learn more about the artists at their websites:  Jim Rosenau, Laura Cahill and Atelier Bomdesign.

I love to both travel and listen to my friends talk about their trips — especially those taken by artist WC-P and her husband, WP, who is an expert with electronics and machines as well as a connoisseur of old cars. The couple only drive vintage cars which WP has renovated. He spent four months restoring a comfortable, roomy 1989 Grand Marquis station wagon which they drove from Arlington, Virginia to visit the iconic Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas on their vacation in 2007.

Forty years ago, Amarillo billionaire Stanley Marsh lll wanted to create a piece of public art that would baffle the locals. In 1974 he supported a proposal by a group of San Francisco artists known as the Ant Farm to develop a tribute to the evolution of the Cadillac’s tail fin. The artists drove 10 different Cadillac models into one of his fields along Route 66 west of Amarillo, and then half-buried them, hood down, in the dirt — supposedly at the same angle as the Great Pyramid of Gaza. The cars faced west in a line, their tail fins displayed for all to see.

Often-decorated Cadillacs displayed at Cadillac Ranch.

WP visiting the Cadillac Ranch with obligatory supplies -- camera and spray paint -- in hand.

Marsh and the artists watched what happened next. People visited the cars and defaced them or tore off pieces as souvenirs; the tail fins disappeared. Stripped to their frames and splattered with spray paint, the Cadillacs are still on display for large numbers of international tourists who arrive with spray paint and cameras. Adding their graffiti, they ask others to take pictures of them, before someone else comes by and repaints it.

Unfortunately, other tributes to the whole American car have not fared as well.

Spindle, a 1989 sculpture, was located in a shopping center parking lot in Berwyn, Illinois. Commissioned by the center’s owner from sculptor Dustin Shuler, it consisted of eight cars — including the owner’s BMW — impaled on a 50-foot spike. The sculpture’s foundation extended 30 feet into the ground and cost $75,000 to install.

Spindle became both a tourist attraction — it was featured in the film, Wayne’s World, and in the syndicated comic strip, Zippy the Pinhead — and a source of civic controversy.  Some citizens petitioned the mayor to remove it while the mayor claimed it attracted more business to the town. In 2007 it was removed when the shopping center site was redeveloped and nobody ponied up the  $350,000 needed to relocate it.

"Spindle" as it once appeared as a sculpture in Berwyn, Illinois' shopping center.

A 1987 family reunion produced Carhenge in a field outside Alliance, Nebraska, where farmer Jim Reinders has constructed a unique memorial to his father.

While living in England, Reinders had studied the structure and proportions of the ancient Stonehenge. Instead of using massive stones for his monument, however, Reinders arranged 38 vintage American cars, all covered with grey spray paint, in a 95-foot diameter circle. Some sit upright, trunk-end down, in pits nearly five feet deep, with other cars welded on top to form arches. Other automobile sculptures have been added to the Carhenge location over the years.

Carhenge was listed as one of Time magazine’s Top 50 American Roadside Attractions and was featured in the 2007 travel book, 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die.

"Carhenge," a megalith built on a farm outside Alliance, Nebraska.

"Carhenge" (detail).

The site, visited by 80,000 people a year, is now run by the nonprofit Friends of Carhenge, which does not charge admission; the grounds are open all day, every day.

The Friends no longer have resources to expand the site and have put it up for sale for $300,000. If the group does not find a buyer, President Marcia Buck said the Friends will continue to care for it, including maintenance of these non-moving vehicles. Unlike Cadillac Ranch, when parts fall off, they are put back in place.

“The damn things break down even when they are struck in the ground,” Buck said.

In December, when I was buying Christmas presents at a wonderful local upscale gift shop that doesn’t usually carry Art-Eco products, I was surprised to see clocks, brooches and a mirror made with discarded metal bottle caps.

Almost since the invention of the “crown cork” in the 19th century, bottle caps have provided an inexpensive and abundant source of art supplies once they’ve been separated from the beverage container.

Bottle-cap art has been popular since the 1940s, because they were inexpensive and relatively plentiful. We are now seeing more modern artists experimenting with bottle caps as recycled materials have become almost mainstream.

L. "Bottle Cap Basket" made from bottle caps c.1940. Photo courtesy of The Ames Gallery. R. "Bottle Cap Basket/Sculpture" handmade from bottle caps, gold paint, metal armature with lid bottom. From coastal Georgia. c. 1940-60. Photo courtesy of the Acacia Collection.

Clarence and Grace Woolsey began making bottle-cap figures in 1961 when they were employed as farmhands in Iowa,–reportedly to make use of a gallon of bottle caps they had accumulated. Over the course of a decade, they created several hundred sculptures. Discouraged by lack of public interest in their work, the couple stopped making them and stored them in a barn owned by Grace’s brother. The figures were discovered 20 years later when the farm was auctioned in 1993.

"Untitled Figures" by Clarence and Grace Woolsey. Photo courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum.

In the late 20st century, painter and web designer John Boak has decorated hand-built kitchen cabinets in his mountain cabin with bottle-cap medallions. The proliferation of microbreweries has provided caps in a wide array of colors which he stores, by color, in old soda bottles.

John Boak's bottle-cap cabinet medallions. Photos by John Boak.

Want to try your hand at this?  Boak shows the rest of us how to do this on his website.

Greg Warmack, aka Mr. Imagination, is a contemporary self-taught artist who worked as a street artist before he was shot during a robbery. After waking up from a coma in the hospital, he had a new vision and began working exclusively with found objects. Now his work can be found in private collections and museums throughout the world.

"Bottlecap Figure with Mirror" by Mr. Imagination. This figure is two feet tall and has an elongated mirror in its center. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

In addition to creating found art and sculpture which is exhibited throughout the country, Michelle Stitzlein teaches workshops for children about creating sculpture from bottlecaps, and other found materials. Both facets of her career require large quantities — more than any one person can provide. “90% of my caps are donated from family, friends and strangers who have heard about my work with kids,” she said. “They do take up a considerable area of studio space. Maybe 16 feet.”

Stitzlein's students show their work made with plastic bottlecaps. Photo by Michelle Stitzlein.

There few “how to” books about creating art with caps.  Stitzlein has written two.  Her newest, Cool Caps!, designed for teachers, parents and children, contains 7 projects made with recycled plastic bottle caps. It is available for sale on Lulu.

U.S. Botanic Garden, Conservatory.

I live and work in Washington, DC, but the closest I usually get to the Senate and House of Representatives is when I visit a living plant museum.

The U.S. Botanic Garden is located at the base of Capitol Hill and a few blocks from the National Gallery of Art — you can see the Capitol dome as you wander the outdoor gardens in warm weather. The rotating indoor displays — the collections include 60,000 plants — are my favorite place to take a quick vacation from a leafless winter landscape.

The winter holiday displays are so gaspingly beautiful that I make time to visit them every year. At this time of year, the Conservatory is decorated with fragrant wreaths, garlands, seasonal plants and huge trees covered in ornaments.

For me, the most special part is the detailed models of government buildings handmade from a mind-boggling number of dried plant materials: screw pod rails, whole cinnamon sticks, palm fronds, honeysuckle branches, sea grape leaves, bamboo, canna seeds, gourds, willow, corn husks, elm bar, pine cone scales, eucalyptus seedpods, raffia — a palette most of us would never imagine or collect — all overlaid on solid wood bases.

The genius behind the landmarks in miniature is landscape architect Paul Busse. His company, Applied Imaginations, has been crafting large-scale garden railway designs and buildings from natural, plant-based materials for 30 years.

Model of White House made from plants and displayed at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Photo by U.S. Botanic Garden.

The U.S. Capitol building in plants displayed at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Photo by U.S. Botanic Garden.

The U.S. Botanic Garden's Conservatory created from plants. Photo by U.S. Botanic Garden.

While I love riding on trains, I am not a big model railroad fan. But every year I am compelled to see the Botanic Garden’s Garden Railway Exhibit for its sheer ingenuity. This year it features eight model trains surrounded with inventive buildings, also created from dried plant materials. The buildings on these routes vary from Presidential homes to fanciful critter condos that challenge us to figure out who would live in them. Can’t wait!

The Ladybug Train currently running its route at the U.S. Botanic Garden.

Imaginary animal homes surrounding a toy railroad display at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Left: Giraffe's House. Right: Porcupine's House. Photo by U.S. Botanic Garden.

We here at Eco-Artware.com are going to take some time off to enjoy connecting with friends, family and special holiday traditions, like visiting the Botanic Garden. We hope that you enjoy your together time too. We will return to our computers in two weeks and look forward to further exploring the world of Art Eco with you throughout the new year.

Happy Holidays to all of you from all of us: Reena, Jan, Kate, Tony, MaryBeth, Skye and Santa’s elves who moonlight with us from time to time.

British artist Susan Stockwell crafts her works from recycled materials – maps, money, computer parts.

“A Chinese Dream” is a world map quilted from that country’s currency by Susan Stockwell. At right: detail showing individual bills.

Wall hanging, “Afghanistan, A Sorry State,” is made from U.S. dollars by Susan Stockwell. At lower right: detail showing bills and stitching.

Stockwell says her works are shaped by a dialogue with her materials. She trained as a sculptor, but early in her career began using paper for the practical reasons that it was cheap and readily available. Then she drew on the dressmaking skills handed down from her mother and grandmother to design political fashion statements: Gowns from the British Colonial period made from maps of the Empire.

Full size “Colonial Dress” made from world maps by Susan Stockwell.

From there, the leap to a dress stitched up from obsolete British banknotes was a short one, followed quickly by maps created from other currencies.

Full size “Money Dress.”

Stockwell began working with discarded computer parts after a year-long residency in Taiwan in 2007 opened her eyes to the importance of recycling to the island’s economy. She created and recycled a piece called Freefall from literally tons of discarded electronic components.

“Taipai Stack” (foreground) and “Freefall” (background) by Susan Stockwell at the Hong's Foundation, Taipai, Taiwan.

“Flood” by Susan Stockwell.

Flood by Susan Stockwell consisted of a tower of computer components pouring from the roof of the church, into the nave–filling it with colorful pieces of metal and wire. It was temporarily installed for a four-month exhibit at York St. Mary’s. a medieval church re-created as an exhibit space for contemporary work in England.

Stockwell has reinterpreted the work in several locations, including a deconsecrated 13th century church in York, to help people consider how ubiquitous electronics have become in modern life — and the problems associated with dealing with them once they become obsolete.

The growing popularity of keeping bees in the city is good for the bees, good for the local food supply, and good for the environment. But it brings up an interesting question: What the heck to do with all that honey?

Obviously, you can eat it. The chefs at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC, where they harvest 100 pounds of honey from their rooftop hives each year, provided some scrumptious ideas, not all for sweets.

An Artisan Cheese Plate with a honeycomb served at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington, DC.

For an appetizer or dessert, combine a honeycomb with a plate of artisan cheeses, along with small baguette. For example, the chef has used a combination of Bijou, a semi-soft, ripened goat cheese from Vermont; Oregonzola, a semi-soft, blue-vein cow’s milk cheese from Oregon; and Talbot Reserve, a semi-hard, raw cow’s milk cheese from Maryland. Drizzle a little honey on the bread and on the cheese, for a more mellow taste.

City bees have a more varied diet than their sisters down on the farm because commercial hives tend to be dedicated to pollinating a single crop at a time. As a result, honey from urban hives has its own distinct flavor, based on what is in bloom when the bees forage in parks and gardens and balcony windowboxes. In San Francisco, locally produced honey is labeled with the neighborhood it comes from, and fans can tell the difference between a spring Golden Gate Park and an autumn Cow Hollow.

One note of caution: Babies under a year old should not eat honey to avoid the possibility of botulism.

Honey also has a number of properties that make it a natural for natural cosmetics. It has an astringent and antiseptic effect and acts as a humectant, drawing moisture into the skin. Lindsay Kujawa, a licensed esthetician, who worked in a medical spa for four years before opening her own, believes in a holistic approach for skin treatments. She develops remedial skin treatments from natural products and often shares her tips in a weekly blog, Delighted Momma. Here is her recipe for a pumpkin mask with honey that both hydrates and removes dead skin cells from our skin.

Lindsay Kujawa's pumpkin mask, which she applies with a brush.

Honey’s antiseptic quality has been used to heal wounds for millenia. Other medicinal uses include drinking honey and lemon in hot tea to soothe a sore throat and reduce the symptoms of the common cold, and the famed honey-and-apple-cider-vinegar cure-all. Honey has also been used as a diuretic, a laxative and a sleep aid throughout history.

A home hive will also yield honeycomb and beeswax, which can be made into soaps, candles or other useful household items. Susan Brackney’s book, Plan Bee explains how to prepare the wax once the honey is harvested.

Honeybees have been keeping busy in the city lately. Rooftops from San Francisco, which has long swarmed with local beekeeping clubs, to New York City, where beekeeping became legal in March 2010, are abuzz with honey-producing hives.

The worker bees also live at some of the most prestigious addresses. In the heart of Washington, DC, the Fairmont Hotel installed a three-hive apiary on its roof in 2009 as part of the lodging chain’s environmental stewardship program which currently yields 100 lbs. of honey a year.

Honey harvested from the Fairmont’s hives is used in a wide range of dishes served in the food service operation, and the honeycomb can also find its way into iced tea and a signature cocktail, the BeeTini, containing vanilla vodka, fresh lemon juice,and honey with a honeycomb garnish.

Executive Sous Chef Ian Ben removes honey from their hotel's rooftop hives (on the 10th floor) at the The Fairmont Hotel in Washington D.C.

The bees also help keep the Fairmont’s courtyard herb and flower garden— as well as the plants and flowers in the surrounding neighborhood — pollinated and healthy. Since honeybees can fly up to three miles in search of nectar, the DC bees also visit nearby Rock Creek Park with its variety of trees and blooming vegetation. Bens, who learned to farm honey recently told Expressnightout.com that the hobby has made him aware of new things. “I never stopped and looked at bees before,” he said. “Now I notice them everywhere, and I wonder if they’re ours.”

Urban beekeeping has become a global phenomenon, partly in response to various environmental threats to the honeybee population around the world. The City of London Festival maintains hives in strategic locations including near St. Paul’s Cathedral, while the London Wildlife Trust hosts a training apiary for aspiring beekeepers in King’s Cross. In Melbourne, Australia, the Urban Honey Co. delivers new hives — complete with queens, workers and drones — by bicycle-powered rickshaw only as far away as they can pedal.

It’s easy to become part of the buzz, provided you have access to an outdoor area with about 10 feet of landing space for your bees. Susan Brackney’s book, Plan Bee, provides everything you need to know about getting started in small-scale beekeeping, from setup to recipes for using the honey and beeswax.

Visit her website at planbeebook.com to learn how to install and feed honeybees, light a bee smoker, peek inside some hives in Bloomington, Indiana — and watch the video of Susan explaining how she felt stung by the lack of a queen in Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie.

Rev. Jacqueline Cherry, a Deacon in the Episcopal Church in California, has a beehive in her backyard. She sells the honey locally; proceeds are donated to the food pantry run by her church. Photo via The Daily Green from an article on urban beekeeping.

This interest in hyper-local honey has been spurred not only by the growing eat-local movement but the still-mysterious disappearance and decline of honeybees called Colony Collapse Disorder. CCD was first identified in North America in 2006 and has been studied extensively since. It’s been on the rise, with about 30 percent of the commercial bee population not surviving last winter, but a definitive cause has yet to be pinpointed.

Theories abound, from use of pesticides made from chemicals in the nicotine family that damage the bees’ neurological system to infestations by the varroa mite; from electromagnetic radiation from cellphones and transmitters to the increased use of genetically modified crops. It could be a combination of all these factors, and more, or it could be sheer overwork.

Commercial beehives are responsible for pollinating more than a third of North America’s vegetable and fruit crops — almonds, apples and blueberries rely almost exclusively on bee pollination. After spending the spring and summer working on local peaches or grapes, commercial hives may be trucked from as far away as Colorado to pollinate California almonds in the winter. Hobby hives rest up over the winter, dedicated to keeping the queen warm until spring.

Somewhat ironically, city bees have a more varied diet than their sisters down on the farm. Commercial hives tend to be dedicated to a single crop at a time, while urban dwellers forage in parks and gardens and balcony windowboxes. In San Francisco, locally produced honey is labeled with the neighborhood it comes from, and fans can tell the difference between a spring Golden Gate Park and an autumn Cow Hollow.

Rag rugs were the first American-made rugs. Between mending clothes, sewing patchwork quilts, and making rugs, the colonials found a new use for every scrap of precious fabric.

Today, some fiber artists continue to work with these utilitarian techniques to preserve American traditional arts. Others are creating rag rugs to divert fabric from the landfill as well. It’s estimated that each U.S. family sheds 68 pounds of unwanted clothing and upholstery into the landfill each year.

Weaver Chris Gustin started making potholders when she was a child. To hone her weaving skills, she took workshops in college and craft schools before developing her own techniques.

Her commitment to weaving with waste fabric began in 1974 when she saw a patchwork “crazy quilt” called “Recycle and Re-use” at Expo, the World’s Fair in Spokane, Washington.

Chris Gustin's rugs woven from waste selvages produced during the weaving of fabric for upholstery and clothing.

“It made me think about what I could do to help the environment,” Gustin said, and she said began exploring new ways to weave with waste materials. She used supplies from thrift shops, sock factories, bedding manufacturers, weaving mills and scrap dealers.

Her work now diverts about a ton of industrial waste fabrics a year from the landfill into rugs, clothing, and home accessories. Gustin also teaches others how to work with unconventional supplies and find scrap materials for weaving in her studio in Brown County, Indiana.

Crispina ffrench has been reworking used clothing into one-of-a-kind new clothing, rugs, pillows and other useful things since 1987, when she sold her work from a backpack at music festivals. She bought supplies — old sweaters and t-shirts — from Goodwill stores throughout the Northeast.

Demand grew and she expanded by hiring homemakers and caretakers in her western Massachusetts town to create new stock.

Stone Soup Potholder Rug, made from 100% post consumer used wool sweaters by Crispina ffrench.

In 2008, when 40 people were creating new pieces for her, she closed her business to take care of her two younger children, now pre-teens. She taught workshops, wrote a book, and today sells some products which she makes in her spare time, on Etsy. Ffrench is also working on a commission from the Eileen Fisher Co. to create useful products from worn, unusable clothing returned to corporate headquarters in Irvington, New York.

Ffrench's Dino Ragamuffin doll hand sewn from recycled wool sweaters and stuffed with natural raw mohair.

“It is my hope to inspire and bring to light the value and vastness of discarded material in our culture,” ffrench said.

She also offered a unique tip for cleaning her rag rugs: On a fresh layer of snow.

“Spread the dirty rug out and walk all over it (don’t wear muddy boots!) then flip the rug over a new spot in the fresh snow and do the same,” she said. “This technique pulls all the animal hair, dust bunnies and lint balls off the surface. Spills can be cleaned with a gentle scrubbing brush and soapy water.”

Learn more about these artists at their websites: Chris Gustin and Crispina ffrench.

I think it’s easier for more of us to buy a new eco-friendly winter hat than other articles of clothing. Green designers are fashioning hats in all shapes and sizes from just a few scraps of cloth otherwise destined for the landfill. Here are a few ageless styles that are eco-chic as well as warm.

BaaBaaZuzu is an omnivore for recycled wool. With the help of brokers throughout the country, the Michigan-based company rescues two tons of unwanted men’s and women’s wool clothing each month. The wool is then turned into felt in specially made washing machines before the Baabaazuzu artisans handcraft it into one-of-a-kind hats, mittens, purses, vests, and scarves.

Pillbox hat and Cloche by BaaBaaZuzu.

Icebox Knitting’s Xob Upcycled collection of unique hats, arm and hand warmers, mittens, bags, toys, and pillows, starts out as discarded wool-blend sweaters and suit jackets. The handcrafters work on antique hand-powered knitting machines in Longmont, Colorado, where they also create the Dohm Collection of rugged mountain headwear, which combines organic virgin wool with recycled linings. Fabric scraps are used for appliques and toy stuffing, and any remaining leftovers are shipped to Tennessee for quilt batting.

Peace Visor hat (left) and Bomber hat (right) from Icebox Knitting's Xob Collection.

Virginia-based Ryan Williamson started his one-man business, The Mouse Works, when he was 14. He buys Malden Mills polar fleece castoffs — seconds or colors that the manufacturers no longer use — from jobbers. Williamson personally hand sews the pieces into hats for babies, youth, and adults. All the fabric scraps from his hat production are used to make more hat parts, skirts, tassels, or to stuff pillows and cuddly pets, which he gives away. In 17 years he has made over 60,000 hats with minimal impact on local landfills. All of his trash from 2010 fit into one trash bag.

Jester hat (upper left), Cloche hat (upper right) and Fleece Dog hat (bottom) by Ryan Williamson.

The Socklady, Marianne Wakerlin, creates socks from recycled cotton, knit at a family-owned mill and hand-finished in Vermont. Each sock has the same pattern and colors in different order so a pair appears “mismatched.” Rejected socks are saved and stitched into one-size patchwork hats that fit most adults. Each is lined with plush fleece to keep the ears warm, and no two are alike.

Hats and scarves from recycled cotton designed by The Socklady.

Visit these sites to view more hats:

• Baabaazuzu
• Dohm Collection
• The Mouse Works
• Sol Mate Socks